Luke Fitzwilliam arrives in England on vacation. In the compartment of the next train to London, his fellow traveler is an elderly lady Miss Pinkerton. The talkative old woman reports that she is heading to Scotland Yard. In the village where she lives, someone is dying all the time, and she suspects that they are murders. Next ...

Lady Lucy Endkatell awaits guests for the weekend at her Hollow estate. Among the invitees are the famous doctor John Cristow with his wife Gerda, an absurd and near-by woman, the sculptor Henrietta Savernijk, cousin of Sir Endcatell David, cousin and best friend of Lucy Midge, and cousin of Lucy, writer Edward. Lucy ...

His whole family gathers for Richard Eberneti’s funeral. Among them are Helene, the widow of Brother Richard; Maud, wife of the forever sick brother Timothy, and nephews of the late sisters and brother: George Crossfill, actress Rosamund with her husband-actor and Susan with her husband. Also here is the youngest sister ...

The famous writer Ariadne Oliver invites the famous detective Hercule Poirot to a holiday at the Stubbs family estate, located in a small village near the camp site. The owner of the estate, George Stubbs, became a wealthy plebeian, and, according to Mrs. Oliver, a limited man, but in the dock business, lives ...

A small plane departs from Paris to London. One of the passengers, Jane Gray, is not indifferent to the young man sitting in front of her, Norman Gael, a dentist whom she had already met once. During the flight, Lady Horbari calls her maid from another cabin. There is a bee flying in the cabin, and one ...

The prologue Count Sergey Pavlovich meets in Paris with the Russian dancer Nadine. They both work for a certain Colonel engaged in espionage. The colonel decided to retire, and they are afraid that they will be left without work. Once Nadine helped the Colonel in a diamond adventure, several stones remained ...

Elderly lady Miss Marple is relaxing in a hotel on the Caribbean. Her interlocutor, Major Pelgrave, chatted incessantly about all kinds of trifles. Among other things, he talks about a serial killer who killed his wives. By chance, a major has a photograph of a criminal in his wallet. Looking for a picture ...

In the lobby of the fashionable London hotel "Bertram" - the embodiment of old England - the guests gather for an evening tea party. The elderly ladies present pay attention to Bess Sedgwick, one of the most notorious women in England. Bess was an active participant in the French Resistance, a brave ...

Book one. Rosemary Seventeen-year-old Iris recalls the tragic events that occurred a year ago. She and her older sister Rosemary lost their parents early. A former mother fan left them a large inheritance, in which most belonged to Rosemary. Rosemary beauty leading a secular image ...

Part One One of the Coronation club members, Major Porter, finds in the newspaper a note about the death of millionaire Gordon Cloud. An explosion occurred in his London home. Mr. Cloud himself died, a married couple of servants and a maid girl. Two weeks before the explosion, Cloud married. His wife Rosalyn, who is younger ...

The narrative is on behalf of Dr. Sheppard. He lives in a small English village with his unmarried sister Carolina, a big news lover. Doctors call Mrs. Ferrar, who lives in the neighborhood, but the woman is already dead, because she took too much of a sleeping pill. Her husband abused ...

Jane Eyre lost her parents early and now lived with her aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her life was not sugar. The fact is that Mrs. Reed was not her aunt, but only the widow of her mother’s brother. About the girl’s parents, she held the lowest opinion, and how could it be otherwise, because Jane’s mother, coming from a good ...

The scene is England and Scotland. Action time - XI century. The tragedy begins with a conversation of three witches who discuss when they will converge again - decide to get together "as soon as the battle ends with the victory of one side." In a military camp near Forres, Scottish King Duncan listens from a bloodied ...

The heroine, so magnificently presented on the title, was actually called Susan, which will be revealed by the end of the book, in a random reservation (“my daughter was named after me”). However, in her changeable life, she changed “roles” so many times that Roxanne’s name was fixed - according to the “role” she played in her starry ...

Angel Jabrail Bostan Aircraft blown up by terrorists. Two Indian immigrants drop out of it and escape. Wonderful transmutations occur with them when they fly through clouds and a column of light. Unharmed and changed, he throws them ashore. Indian actors Farishta and Chamcha are immigrants....

The duration of the action is not defined.As a result of a nuclear explosion that occurred somewhere, a group of teenagers who were taken to evacuate find themselves on a desert island. The first on the seashore are Ralph and a fat boy with glasses nicknamed Piggy. Finding a large shell at the bottom of the sea, they use ...

Owner Action takes place in London in 1886–1887. In the house of old Jolion, a family celebration, a reception in honor of the engagement of Miss June Forsyth with Mr. Philip Bosini. There are many guests, the family is very large. Inside the Forsyth clan, as in society, the law of competition reigns, ...

: A boy who later became a famous zoologist lives on a Greek island in a house with a garden. He floods the house with a variety of animals, which his family doesn't like too much. The narration is conducted on behalf of ten-year-old Jerry Darrell. The Darrell family moves from England to the Greek island of Corfu, ...

A certain pious man was cast down by the wicked in the prison, and he had a vision there: In the middle of the field, with his back to his habitation in the city of Death, there is a man bent under the heavy burden of sins. In his hands is the Book. From the Book of this man, the Christian, learned that the city will be burned by heavenly fire and all ...

: An outstanding leader of the criminal world, who can not be caught in any way, is tracking Holmes in Europe. Longtime enemies meet at a steep waterfall and die in a deadly battle. After marriage, Dr. Watson rarely sees Sherlock Holmes. One evening, a great detective comes to his faithful friend ...